Alphonsus Liguori Quotes

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

My grandmother studied medicine in the Forties, which was very rare in Egypt, and my mother was a university professor, so my idea of religion wasn't about a woman not working or having to dress in a certain way; it was more to do with the faith.

Hinde Esther Singer was born in Poland on March 31, 1881, the daughter of Bathsheva and Pinchos Mendel Singer. Bathsheva was an intellectual, but both Bathsheva's father and her husband disapproved of erudite women.

I grew up in a conservative household. That was the life of the time in Egypt: a conservative, middle-class household.

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

I'm from the generation that had the boys' door and the girls' door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

Some people are sure to say that women who spend their time with philosophers are bound to become self-willed and arrogant, deserting their households for the company of [other ] men, practicing speeches, talking like sophists, when they ought to be sat at home spinning

We were very old-fashioned. My preacher at church told me I could not go in to the movies because it would make me a 'wanton woman.'

Having daughters tends to help a guy get in touch with his inner social conservative.

In colleges, there are no gender separations in courses of study, and students can freely choose their majors. There are no male and female math classes. But women generally choose college courses that pay less in the labor market. Those are the choices that women themselves make. Those choices contribute to the pay gap.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

Islam, Christianity and Judaism all define themselves through disgust of women's bodies.

When you are Spanish girl, you got to grow up in a convent if you want to get married.

Even my grandmother would tell me that girls should not wrestle, it's a man's game.

Traditionally, our society has always seen women as homemakers and men as bread-earners. The demarcations are engraved in stone, perhaps.

I can guarantee that back in the day, if a woman was left alone and she needed to eat, she would have to hunt. It's not biological imperative that says men have to ask us out; it's social conditioning. And we can change it.

Why is it so hard for men to identify with women as fellow travelers on this good Earth?

If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

A woman's place is in the home. Why should she go out and take away a workingman's pay instead of staying home and stealing out of his jacket like a good wife.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

There are conservative values where certain lifestyles are imposed and everybody should have 2.4 children and a dog and a cat and a house and you should feel like God and you should believe in God and you should be a capitalist. I don't buy any of that.

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.